Improvement in rain-water cut-offs



UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

JACOB F. HESS, OF MASSILLON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND LEONARD HESS, OF SAME PLAGE.

IMPROVEMENT IN RAIN-WATER CUT-OFFS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 162,382, dated April 20, 187.5 application filed March 23, 1875.

To whom it may concern Be it known that I, JACOB F. HESS, of Massillon, in the county of Stark and State ofOhio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ruin-Water Cut-Offs; and that the following is a full, clear and exact specification thereof', which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the said invention:

My invention rela-tes to certain improve ments in cut-offs for rain-water conductors, and consists in the construction of n two-pipe cese, containing e rotating cutoff, which 'is both supported and operated by en erin eX- tending through aslot in the outer case, as is hereinafter more fully shown.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure l is an elevation, half in full view and half in section, oflny improved cut-oil', Fig. 2 is a. plan ofthe seme, with the upper end heli cut off through the erin slot, and Fig. 3 is n side view ofthe upper end.

A and B are two pipes, one for the waste, and the other for the cistern-water, which are united in a. common neck, O. 'lhe upper edge ofthe neck C is rounded in, and has the collar D soldered in it, and :t slot, E, with end notches c e, is cut around one-half o' the neck C, as shown. The cut-off F H consists ofthe cylindrical port F, which iits u p between the neck O and collar D, and has the sloping lower end H, by which the water is deiiected from its vertical course through the collar D and cylindrical port F to the pipes A or B. This cut-oft is support-ed and operated by the arm G, which is secured to the port F, and extends ont through the slot E in the neck C. The notches e receive the arm G at either end of a half rotation ot' the cut oit', and secure it in the desired position. This mode of supporting the cutoff by an nrin placed below its upper end, and working in n slot in the case-neck, makes it unnecessary to provide any lower bearing for the cut-oli', und materially cheztpens its construction.

I am aware that a two-pipe cese with n revolvingcutoff has been before constructed, und luy no claim to such construction, except when the revolving cnt-off is wholly supported in the case by the erin by which itis operated.

What I claim es my inventior, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The two-pipe case A B C, having the slot E made in its side and below its upper edge, in combination with the revolving cut-off F H, having the arm Gr extending through the slot E, and serving as the support for said cut-off in the ense, substantially ns and for the purpose herein specitied.

As evidence oi' the foregoing witness my hand.

JACOB F. HESS.

Witnesses ROBERT H. FoLeEE, J. W. SoHUoKEss. 

